Jack Grealish

[stonerblue]

Villa had a great side back in 81/82

Nice kit an all.

 

[stonerblue]

Lot of movement on this one today I see...

Nailed on now.

 

[Gingers Dad]

I can easily see him staying another year due to the human side of the game. If we were in Villa's position and the club asked Phil to give them one more year because it would help us take the next step I think he would. I read he is a childhood Villa fan it doesn't seem much of a stretch to think he would agree to one more year to help them. I hope he does come here but if he doesn't move this year I could understand why and at his age maybe he thinks he can afford to do it.

The one more year thing still doesn't make any sense to me. If his heads turned he may as well leave. What's he going to achieve next season at Villa? Overhaul about 5 clubs to get a Europa Conference place is about the best they could hope for right now.

 

[Gingers Dad]

He's already done that whole stick around out of loyalty thing. He went down with them and carried them back into the PL.

I think Grealish knows his age. He did an interview with Micah over the Euros where he talked about how he didn't expect it to take this long to get to the England side when Hodgson phoned him up to say he was in the picture in 2016.

He's not a 21 year old kid anymore, he's turning 26 in a few weeks, he's fucked about with Villa for long enough and now it's time to start competing at the top level.

That about sums it up

 

[stonerblue]

Due to global warming Jack told his driver, who takes his car to be valeted at my step cousins illegal immigrants hotel, that the change in the Brum weather is making him have second thoughts about becoming new Man City captain. ##

 

[talkativesprout]

Grealish thread you FOCs

1k posts and giving it the biggun, my dad was watching both teams when you supported Chelsea ;)

apologies for the thread derail, please go back to slagging off hair bands and lickle shinpads

 

[Jung the foreman]

Only 1k posts but been watching City since 1970. Some people post lots but have fuck all to say. Regards to your old man.

 

[kalouk]

The one more year thing still doesn't make any sense to me. If his heads turned he may as well leave. What's he going to achieve next season at Villa? Overhaul about 5 clubs to get a Europa Conference place is about the best they could hope for right now.

I was making a more general point a few people had been giving football reasons as to why he has to leave and why would he want to stay when he could win things here. I'm not saying I think it will happen but it doesn't seem much of a stretch to think that Villa could persuade him into staying another year for example. As I said I really want him here and I agree with all the football reasons given but it may not just come down to that which is why I mentioned Phil no one will ever convince me that if City needed him and asked him for one more year he wouldn't do it. It was just a hypothetical.

 

[skillman]

I wonder what the threshold is post count-wise to be considered an actual fan

 

[dozzie26]

Jesus, wasn't expecting to get as many backs up with that comment, wasn't intended as a wind up. We were big in the late 60s, early 70s then fell into oblivion in the grand scheme of things, as others benefited from the start of Premier League, including the juggernaut of Manchester United.

Villa were one of the EFL founder members with fantastic early success, then obviously won the European Cup nearly a century later. Go to the Midlands, it's a massive catchment area and if people don't support United or Liverpool, it's usually Villa. We have been so lucky with the investment we've been given, but without that we are a mid table top division team with about 30-40k hardcore fans (consistently higher crowds than Villa in the Championship, so fair play). The last 10 years has been great but we need to sustain that for the next 20-30 years to be considered up there with the Uniteds, Liverpools, Arsenals. Loads of fans coming through in Gen Z and younger, but it'll take these guys starting to come to games and bringing their kids too for us to grow as a genuine fanbase. Currently we wouldn't fill a stadium the swamp's size week in week out. They struggle due to their drop off in success, and they're a generation or two ahead of us in their establishment at the big table. History isn't everything, we are a fantastic club with a fantastic bunch of fans and we are here to stay; but we're not a massive club.

Back to Grealish, I agree he's stuck around at Villa and been a legend there. Most of their fans probably wouldn't begrudge him a move to a title contender.